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category: "PROMIS Scandal"
tags:
  - Person
  - PROMIS
  - CIA
  - Lawyer
summary: "Indio City Manager who confirmed the hiring of an attorney to investigate links between the Cabazon triple slayings and the Cabazon Casino in the PROMIS scandal."
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[[Phillip Hawes]] was the Indio City Manager. He confirmed to *Indio Daily News* staff writer [[Paul Zalis]] that [[William Cole]], a Los Angeles-based attorney, had been hired to investigate possible links between the triple slayings of [[Fred Alvarez]], [[Ralph Boger]], and [[Patricia Castro]] and the [[Cabazon Indian Reservation]].[^1]

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### Footnotes

[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal*. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010.